Few couples in laughable book history come near to the height of Mary Jane Watson and Peter Parker . Even though they have n’t in reality been a couple in the comics for over a decade — something that could be about to change — Pete and MJ ’s family relationship has been one of the most striking and dear in comics . Given that their complicated history might be about to summarize once more , here ’s a brief summation of their share past times .
Early Days
Although Peter Parker had several love interests in his former comic book account — most notably , of course , Gwen Stacy — when Mary Jane Watson was introduced , she was clearly the be - all and terminal - all of Spidey relationships . Before that , early issue of Amazing Spider - Man spent almost a year teasing her as a potential amatory partner for Peter , with Aunt May always judge to set up a date between Peter and the mysterious , unseen Ms. Watson . Peter would n’t first adjoin MJ until the final moments of Amazing Spider - Man # 42 — with the cry of her famous billet , “ Face it , tiger … you just hit the jackpot!”—and it was love at first heap . Peter immediately began date her , but it did n’t last that long , and the duad eventually broke up for the first of many time . This led to Peter dating Gwen again while MJ , still a serious protagonist to the duo , hooked up with Harry Osborn .
Gwen ’s now - iconic demise at the hands of the Green Goblin in Amazing Spider - Man # 121 drove Peter and Mary Jane together again as they both tried to fall to terms with the loss of Gwen . But once more , it did n’t last that long — Peter ’s double life as Spidey began to deplumate them apart , and when Peter declare oneself a hasty marriage proposal , Mary Jane turned him down , and decided to escape her trying life with a move away from New York , leaving Peter on his own again .
Upon her return ( and the reveal that she had estimate out that Peter is Spider - Man ) , the two remained friends . But treble traumas — Peter losing his near friend Ned Leeds , and Mary Jane present her crooked father — moderate to the two get closer again , and this clock time Peter ’s second marriage proposal beat . Well , actually , MJ turned him down again but eventually reconsidered .
Love and Marriage
Peter and Mary Jane got marry in 1987 ’s The Amazing Spider - Man Annual # 21 , a full 21 days after the two first forgather all the way back in Amazing Spider - Man # 42 . Which means , they exist blithely ever after until a certain incredibly controversial upshot that we ’ll get to later untie all this , correct ?
Ahahahahahahahahahahaha . No .
Peter and MJ ’s married life was defined by a honestly derisory amount of drama . Mary Jane ’s modeling career hit unexampled high after her marriage , only for her to be stalk by her former landlord , who not only break her career but then kidnapped her ( the first of many , many kidnapping during her married couple ) . Meanwhile , Peter was distraught by the arriver of a couple lay claim to be his foresighted - thought - numb parent . Once they were disclose to be Life Model Decoy robot sent by the Chameleon ( engage by Harry Osborn in an attempt to get revenge for the death of his father Norman , a.k.a . the Green Goblin ) to drink down him , Peter had a full mental breakdown , abandoning Mary Jane for a while before they finally reunited .
And then , oh and then , there ’s the Clone Saga , one of the most notorious Spider - Man news report ever tell . In between all the wild nonsense about Peter clon , Ben Reilly , and Peter being convinced that he ’s a clone so he abandons being Spider - Man altogether , Mary Jane became pregnant , only to tragically give birth to a abortive child after she was poisoned by an agent of the Green Goblin . The repugnance and stress of the whole event — which culminate in the return key of Norman Osborn , the plain last of Ben Reilly ( do n’t vex , hegot better too , finally , sort of ) , and Peter ’s return to the Spider - Mantle — understandably put the couple ’s family relationship on the tilt .
Then MJ got kidnapped ( again ) by a telepathic mutant who desire to steal Peter ’s lifetime ( and his wife ) and spy a plane explosion in Amazing Spider - Man # 13 , which led to Peter believing MJ was utter for over a year . When the twosome reunited , the additional trauma of her months - long captivity led to Mary Jane spending prison term apart from Peter while she recover .
A Deal With the Devil
As if all this was n’t more than enough kicks while Peter and MJ were down , Civil War broke out in the Marvel existence in 2006 , which find Peter ’s identity made public , the superhero biotic community tearing itself apart over something that isin equal parts tragical and dumb , and Aunt May and MJ having to go on the run after Spider - Man ’s ginormous roster of opposition started chase them in the wake of Peter ’s fully grown , goosey reveal .
It ’s this moment that conduct to Aunt May taking an assassin ’s slug stand for for Peter , putting her in a critical precondition — and the comer yet another of Spider - Man ’s most infamously reviled storyline : the immensely unpopular One More Day . Mephisto , essentially Marvel ’s result to Satan , offered Peter and MJ a opportunity to save May in interchange for wiping their wedding from existence , provide Mephisto to feed off of the dateless catastrophe of a happy life sentence left unlived . Peter and MJ concur ( it ’s finally revealed MJ bartered with Mephisto so he ’d never meddle with Peter ’s life again if the wad went through ) , and Mephisto altered history . In this newfangled reality , Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson seriously date for multiple years and then let on up , and Aunt May recover from the assassination attempt on Peter ’s living . Twenty year after they were first happily married , Peter and MJ were no longer husband and wife , to the scurvy wildness of fans and critic likewise .
On Again, Off Again
That still left the problem of Peter ’s identity being made public during Civil War , however . Peter asked Doctor Strange to cast a spell that would wipe his identity from the nous of everyone in the earth , include Mary Jane , in Amazing Spider - Man # 641 — only for Peter to protect Mary Jane from the enchantment ’s effects at the last minute . Despite being keep in on his great secret , Mary Jane ultimately decided she could n’t keep risking the risk of being someone special to Spider - Man , and evidence Peter to move on and find someone else to share his life with .
The two remained friends and confidants over the next few years , until another baseless Spider - Man event — The Superior Spider - Man , in which a dying Doctor Octopus took over Peter ’s body and seemingly sent Peter ’s awareness into the villain ’s antecedently conk body , effectively killing Peter — saw the abbreviated but fabulously gross revitalization of their kinship , even though it was technically Otto Octavius in Peter ’s body . When Mary Jane observe that something was up with Peter , the two apace break up again . And when Peter was eventually rejuvenate to his body and Otto ’s magic trick was revealed to her , Mary Jane decided once and for all that Peter ’s absurd living as a hero should n’t define her life as well , opt to remain booster with him but continue mostly fork from his sprightliness . ( Valid . )
Renewed Vows
The revival of Marvel ’s continuity in the wake of 2015 ’s hole-and-corner Wars keep this status quo for MJ and Peter — although sports fan jonesing for the couplet ’s time together were thrown a bone by Marvel in the shape ofSpider - Man : Renew Your Vows , an ongoing serial that get in 2016 about an alternative - reality version of Peter and MJ that remained married , had a daughter together , and currently fight criminal offense as an total Spider - family .
In the “ All - New , All - Different ” Marvel era , Peter became a highly successful and rich tech CEO with his own company , while Mary Jane began working for Tony Stark after her attempts to function her own chain of nightclubs stop in superhero - battle - induced debris . While the two were still friends — despite Peter ’s discomfort at seeing MJ and Tony working together — the duo spent the last few years comparatively removed to each other , as they both continue to try out propel on .
That is , until Marvel ’s latest relaunch inAmazing Spider - Man # 1earlier this month , by new creative team Nick Spencer and Ryan Ottley , which reason out with Peter and MJ embracing each other and seemingly rekindling their wild-eyed family relationship . Obviously , this reunion is not necessarily a guarantee that the matrimony once undone by One More Day will eventually be restore . But who knows ? It would n’t be the crazy affair that ’s materialize to Peter and Mary Jane in their 50 - plus twelvemonth together .
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